Flat Earth Society was fueled by the surreal guitar of future Cottonwood Rick Doyle , Jack Kerivan organ / vox, Phil Dubuque rhythm /recorder and ex New Chantells bassist Phil Carter. The group put out this amazing album called Waleeco steeped in the emotive shades of “Dark Street Downtown” and “Portrait In Grey”, while the surging “Feelin’ Much Better” spill colorfully. Not bad for a group of kids who started out playing jingles for cereal companies and ended their epitaph with a Sci-Fi concept story called Space Kids, also covered as The Lost. Phil Carter ended up in the Johnson Chicago Blues Band and later the Infliktors, also assistant road manager for Ted Nugent. Waleeco also conceived a slow version of Wilson Pickett’s “Midnight Hour”, but the real hackers are “Four And Twenty Miles”, Jefferson styled, “Shadows” and reverb sterling “In My Window” reeling with Moby Grape riffs.
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